Buffalo Hunt - Softcover

Russell Freedman is the author of nearly 50 books for young people. His work includes, for Clarion, the Newbery Medal book Lincoln: A Photobiography, the Newbery Honor book Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, and more recently, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, which received both a Newbery Honor and the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City.

Grade 6 Up Freedman's book has two levels of appeal: that of the wonderfully conceived and vividly executed paintings (full-color reproductions of stunning paintings by such they-were-there artists as George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Albert Bierstadt, uncluttered by inclusion of photographic every-detail), and that of an informative, accessible text. The title may by itself mislead some, as Freedman presents not a story or description of one hunt but descriptions of the many ways that buffalo hunts were madeby Indians, and later by the whites whose ferocious, firearm slaughter of the ``shaggies''as they were calledbrought the species to near extinction. This is superior to two recent picture books on the general subject of buffalo: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's Buffalo: the American Rison Today (Clarion, 1986) and Cary B. Ziter 's The Moon of Falling Leaves (Watts, 1988). A thundering success. George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
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